In the 21st century there are new skills that need to be learned. Our students need to learn how to use technology and understand the implications of its uses. If we as educators do not understand how technology works or try to incorporate it in someway into our lessons then we are not providing the necessary tools for our children to succeed in a 21st century world. The purpose of this part of the in-service is to provide two different groups of people the same kind of knowledge to incorporate using the internet in your classroom.
Using the Internet in Your Classroom - Using Technology in your Teaching
This section on using the internet has been broken into two different sections. It will be your choice as to where you feel you belong and what part will best help you at the end of this in-service. The first part is for those that struggle in using the internet or even your computer. We will look at simplified versions of ways to integrate technology and the internet into your classroom as well as provide a simplified outline of a webquest called a hotlist that you can use when you go back to teaching your class.
The second section is for those that feel they are more advanced with computers and understand how to use the internet but are looking for new and excititng ways to put it in their lessons for students. This part will show you how to make an indepth webquest on various sites and give you the opportunity to begin crafting your own to use in your lessons.
There is a third section of Other Resources in which you can see other Internet based ideas for classroom use as well as suggest future technology in-services.
I believe the #1 reason to integrate technology into the classroom is to help students become good researchers.
Research is an extremely important reason to use the Internet in education.
Students have a wealth of information open to them. Often, when they are researching obscure topics, school libraries do not have the needed books and magazines. The Internet helps solve this problem.
Part of our job is to help students determine whether their information is from a reliable source. This is also an important lesson for them to learn for research in college and beyond.
The possibilities for assessment and sharing of research on the Internet are endless, many of them involving other forms of technology like
Power Point presentations
video presentations or
publishing research on class websites.
Other ways we assess and share information include
Using the Internet in Your Teaching
In the 21st century there are new skills that need to be learned. Our students need to learn how to use technology and understand the implications of its uses. If we as educators do not understand how technology works or try to incorporate it in someway into our lessons then we are not providing the necessary tools for our children to succeed in a 21st century world. The purpose of this part of the in-service is to provide two different groups of people the same kind of knowledge to incorporate using the internet in your classroom.This section on using the internet has been broken into two different sections. It will be your choice as to where you feel you belong and what part will best help you at the end of this in-service. The first part is for those that struggle in using the internet or even your computer. We will look at simplified versions of ways to integrate technology and the internet into your classroom as well as provide a simplified outline of a webquest called a hotlist that you can use when you go back to teaching your class.
The second section is for those that feel they are more advanced with computers and understand how to use the internet but are looking for new and excititng ways to put it in their lessons for students. This part will show you how to make an indepth webquest on various sites and give you the opportunity to begin crafting your own to use in your lessons.
There is a third section of Other Resources in which you can see other Internet based ideas for classroom use as well as suggest future technology in-services.
This is a link to a great resource that gives you all kinds of infomration on Integrating the Internet into your Classroom.
I believe the #1 reason to integrate technology into the classroom is to help students become good researchers.
Research is an extremely important reason to use the Internet in education.
Students have a wealth of information open to them. Often, when they are researching obscure topics, school libraries do not have the needed books and magazines. The Internet helps solve this problem.
Part of our job is to help students determine whether their information is from a reliable source. This is also an important lesson for them to learn for research in college and beyond.
The possibilities for assessment and sharing of research on the Internet are endless, many of them involving other forms of technology like
- Power Point presentations
- video presentations or
- publishing research on class websites.
Other ways we assess and share information include